196 INTERNAL ANATOMY OF INSECTS. 
ful for keeping caterpillars previously to dissecting them, 
as it consolidated the parts*. 
And now having brought to a close my long wander- 
ings in this ampleand intricate field, and having threaded, 
as well as my slender powers and limited knowledge en- 
abled me, the infinite turnings and convolutions of this 
Deedalean labyrinth—the Anatomy and Physiology of in- 
sects,—will you not own that the volume of wonders I 
have laid before you proves irrefragably that, though these 
minims of nature apparently rank so low in the scale of 
being, yet in their structure, instead of being, as might 
be expected, more simple, they are infinitely more com- 
plex and highly wrought than those animals that are 
placed the nearest to ourselves? the Creaor in the lat- 
ter doing every thing by a beautiful simplicity; while in 
the former, the more to magnify his power and skill, be- 
cause they afford no apparent space for it, by a won- ' 
derfully curious and intricate multiplicity: and whether 
we study the one or the other, we shall in both trace 
the footsteps of that adorable Love which has shown 
attention to the comfort and well-being of the lowest in- 
sect, as well as of the highest of his creatures. 
* These directions for dissecting are chiefly taken from Swammer- 
dam, Life xiv.—and Lyonnet Anat. 7—. 
